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Show ! : Spend a Few Seconds ! j ; To Be Sure of Safety , ; A. family of five persona, a father ; and four children, waa wiped out in an ' " auto-train wreck at a crossing 18 miles j v east of Cheyenne, Wyo., last Saturday. The 45-year-old father, a Hillsdale, ! ' Wyo, farmer, had properly stopped '.' hia car at th Union Pacific crossing : near hia horn and waited for a weat-; weat-; bound freight train to paaa. Aa th ; caboose went by, he started his ear and I ; moved across the tracks. Just then an j east bound mail train earn Hurtling down j i tt the other track (th U. P. ia double ' : . tracked there) at a apeed of more than a mile a minute. It demolished the auto- ; mobil and scattered broken bodies of tha 1 occupant and piece of wreckage for hundred of feet. ; In just such fashion have some of our worst auto-train accidents happened. ! It ia tha kind of accident which cannot '. be prevented by mechanical crossing : warning, nor by ordinary motoring ear. ; It ia natural for a motoriat to assume ; that a crossing signal ia being actuated ; by the train ha sees clearing th - crossing, rather than by a second train " on another track. Tha warning bell or ! flashing light, therefore, can not be ! depended upon to prevent such J tragedy. rJor will ordinary car be a ; sufficient guarantee, because a casual ! glance will indicate to auch a cireum- ! stance that th way ia clear. Actually the only anwer ia for a driver to wait until the first train ha ' cleared th crossing sufficiently for him ! ' to aee that th second track ia in fact j : unoccupied, and that tha warning algnal ' has ceased to operate. Then only can !'. h proceed with aaaurance of safety. ; Th delay of a few second may aeetn annoying but experience which prove th peril at auch multiple track creasing ahould impel a motoriat to lose ' few second in possible exchange for ' many years of life. . |